Mumbai, May 19 (IANS) The Congress and the Samajwadi Party in Maharashtra on Sunday disagreed with the exit polls which predict a clean sweep for the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party-led National Democratic Alliance in the just-concluded Lok Sabha elections. Congress Vice President Ratnakar Mahajan said some of the exit polls[Read More…]
New Delhi, May 19 (IANS) The BJP-led NDA is set to return to power, according to most exit polls released on Sunday, with Congress-led UPA expected to fall far short of numbers to reach the half-way mark in the Lok Sabha elections. The exit polls, released on the conclusion of[Read More…]
Kolkata, May 19 (IANS) The BJP seemed gung-ho while the Trinamool Congress, the Congress and the CPI-M were dismissive about the exit polls predictions for West Bengal on Sunday, one of which suggested that the saffron outfit could win 16 of the 42 Lok Sabha seats in the state. The[Read More…]
Bhubaneswar, May 19 (IANS) The Biju Janata Dal (BJD) and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Sunday exuded confidence to form the next government in Odisha, while the Congress hoped to better its 2014 performance. While most exit polls indicated gain for the BJP in both the Lok Sabha and[Read More…]
Amaravati, May 19 (IANS) Andhra Pradesh’s ruling Telugu Desam Party (TDP) on Sunday said that it does not believe in exit polls as they are often not close to reality. TDP leader Kambampati Rammohan Rao was confident that the results of “exact polls” on May 23 will be different. After[Read More…]
Kolkata, May 19 (IANS) Dismissing the exit poll predictions of the Lok Sabha elections as “gossip”, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Sunday said it was a “game plan to manipulate and replace thousands of EVMs” and urged opposition leaders to stand strong and united. “I don’t trust exit[Read More…]
New Delhi, May 19 (IANS) If exit polls are to be believed, the Narendra Modi government is coming back to power with full majority, but the predictions by poll survey agencies in the past have been found not to be close to the actual results. Barring exit polls of 1998,[Read More…]
Kolkata, May 19 (IANS) West Bengal’s Chief Electoral Officer Aariz Aftab on Sunday said with an average of 72.91 per cent voter turnout, the final phase of Lok Sabha election in West Bengal got over amidst “sporadic” incidents of violence. “The seventh and final phase election in West Bengal got[Read More…]
New Delhi, May 19 (IANS) The Bharatiya Janata Party is set to breach the Biju Janata Dal (BJD) bastion Odisha, according to IANS-CVOTER exit poll. The survey predicts that the BJP will win 10 seats and the BJD will settle for 11. Though the two parties are predicted to be[Read More…]
New Delhi, May 19 (IANS) Trinamool Congress (TMC) Chief Mamata Banarjee is expected to hold her grip over West Bengal, winning 29 seats out of total 42 in the just concluded Lok Sabha elections. The fiery leader is, however, seen unable to stop rival BJP from making massive inroads in[Read More…]
New Delhi, May 19 (IANS) The Election Commission said a total of 647 cases of paid news have been found while 909 posts have been taken down from various social media platforms during the seven-phase Lok Sabha elections which ended on Sunday. Of the total paid news cases, 57 were[Read More…]
New Delhi, May 19 (IANS) The Bharatiya Janata Party on Sunday said the results of the Lok Sabha polls on May 23 will be better than the prediction of exit polls which have favoured the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) returning to power. The Congress said that exit polls have[Read More…]
New Delhi, May 19 (IANS) The BJP could win 11 Lok Sabha seats in West Bengal, up from its 2014 tally of 2 seats, according to the exit poll conducted by Neta-NewsX. In 2014, the ruling Trinamool Congress bagged 34 out of the 42 Lok Sabha seats in West Bengal[Read More…]
Chandigarh, May 19 (IANS) Amid reports of skirmishes and snags in electronic voting machines (EVMs), nearly 59 per cent voting was recorded in Punjab’s 13 Lok Sabha seats in the final phase of the general election on Sunday, officials said. The constituencies that witnessed a higher voter turnout included Patiala[Read More…]
Kolkata, May 19 (IANS) The Bharatiya Janata Party seemed gung-ho, while the Trinamool Congress remained mum and the Congress and the CPI-M were dismissive of the exit poll predictions on Sunday, which suggested that the BJP could win 16 of the 42 Lok Sabha seats in West Bengal. The BJP[Read More…]
Jaipur, May 19 (IANS) Reacting to the exit polls which largely predicted the return of the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) to power at the Centre, BJP leader and former Rajasthan Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje said on Sunday that she was glad that Narendra Modi will become the Prime Minister[Read More…]
New Delhi, May 19 (IANS) The SP-BSP-RLD combine in Uttar Pradesh, which sends the maximum of 80 MPs to Lok Sabha, might not stop Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s juggernaut in the state, the India Today-Axis My India exit poll predicted on Sunday. According to the exit poll, the BJP, which[Read More…]
New Delhi, May 19 (IANS) Orix Corporation of Japan, owner of 49 per cent stake in the seven operating wind power plants (SPVs) of the IL&FS Group, has expressed its intent to buy out the remaining 51 per cent stake held by IL&FS Wind Energy Ltd. In April, state-run GAIL[Read More…]
By Rohit Vaid Mumbai, May 19 (IANS) Come Monday, the Indian equity market is set to rally on the back of Lok Sabha elections 2019 exit polls, most of which have predicted a comfortable majority for the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA). Market observers said that though a BJP-led NDA[Read More…]
Nanning (China), May 19 (IANS) China thrashed Malaysia 5-0 in the opening Group D tie of the Sudirman Cup badminton tournament here on Sunday. The Malaysian players looked good in the first two matches before giving away easy points in the remaining three. All-England runners-up Aaron Chia-Soh Wooi Yik of[Read More…]
Valencia (Spain), May 19 (IANS) Tennis player Feliciano Lopez said on Sunday that the Davis Cup needed to change and that he was confident about the tournament’s new format, which will see the finals of 18 teams at one venue. The 2019 Davis Cup finals will take place between November[Read More…]
New Delhi, May 19 (IANS) The BJP-led NDA magic in Bihar and Jharkhand remains intact as the alliance is set to get a majority in both the states, the India Today-Axis India exit poll predicted on Sunday. According to it, the BJP-led NDA alliance is set to to win 38[Read More…]
New Delhi, May 19 (IANS) The ruling Biju Janata Dal (BJD) in Odisha could face a major setback in 2019 Lok Sabha elections as the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is likely to win 15-19 out of 21 seats in the state, according to India Today-Axis India exit poll. In 2014,[Read More…]
New Delhi, May 19 (IANS) The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is set for a dream run in Delhi and Haryana, according to an exit poll on Sunday. According to India Today-Axis India Exit Polls, the BJP, which won all the seven parliamentary constituencies in Delhi in 2014, is likely to[Read More…]
Patna, May 19 (IANS) Conjoined twin sisters Farah and Saba were among the voters in the last phase of polling in Patna, capital of Bihar, on sunday. The two sisters, who have been joined at the head since birth, voted separately. In the 2015 Assembly elections, their names were on[Read More…]
